2012 British Grand Prix team-by-team lap times and speed comparison

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

A team-by-team look into the lap times, maximum speeds at three individual sectors and highest speeds attained through the speed trap by all the drivers/teams at the 2012 British Grand Prix.2012 British Grand Prix maximum speeds and speed trapThe circuit characteristics of Silverstone requires Med/High downforce setup, with a top speed of 311kph with DRS activated and 301kph without.The data

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British GP: Maldonado and Kobayashi receive fines

Monday, July 9, 2012

Maldonado says "Hi" to Perez in his usual style!Williams’ Pastor Maldonado and Sauber’s Kamui Kobayashi both picked up post-race fines from the British Grand Prix stewards thanks to driving indiscretions during Sunday’s Silverstone race.Maldonado was adjudged to have caused his collision with Sergio Perez, which led to the Sauber driver’s retirement, and due to the seriousness of the incident

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2012 British Grand Prix tyre strategies and pit stop times

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Here is a look into the tyre strategies and the pit stop times for the 2012 British Grand Prix. The race was a dry one, unlike most of the sessions this weekend. Teams were provided with the Pirelli soft option tyres (PZero Yellow) and the hard prime tyres (PZero Silver) for the dry running.Tyre strategies:As we can see from the details below, all the drivers used new sets of fresh rubber. Only

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F1 2012 Championship Standings after British GP

World Drivers' Championship Grands Prix Pos Driver Points AU MA CH BA ES MO CA EU GB GE HU BE IT SI JP KO IN AB US BR 1 Fernando Alonso 129 10 25 2 6 18 15 10 25 18 2 Mark Webber 116 12 12 12 12 - 25 6 12

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Webber wins sunny British Grand Prix to deny Alonso a second successive victory

Mark Webber claimed the ninth win of his career today when he swept to a dramatic and perfectly-judged victory in an incident-filled British Grand Prix.In a race run in welcome, if rare, dry conditions, the 35-year-old Australian steered his Red Bull through 52 laps of complex tactical and strategic racing to overtake pole sitter Fernando Alonso of Ferrari close home.It was Webber's second win

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